Pin.



' No. 718,218. I PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903,

R. REIBE' IA'NZ.

PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY ZZ, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES RICHARD REIBETANZ, OF

ATENT OFFICE.

MITTELBAOH, GERMANY.

PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,218, dated January 13, 1903..

Application filed July 22, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD REIBETANZ, a teacher and a subject of the German Emperor, residing at the village of Mittelbach, near Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of Saxony, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to pins, and it is especially intended to provide means whereby such devices may be adapted to the expeditious fastening and securing in place of curtains of difierent size, of little bunches, badges, and the like.

The device is shown, by way of example, on the accompanying drawings in Figure 1 in side view, and in Fig. 2 in top View. Fig. 3 shows the way of attaching the device when in use.

The pin, as will be seen in particular in Fig. 1 of the drawings, consists of a piece of wire, the extremities of which are given the shape of upwardly-bent points a. The upwardly-turned parts b, which serve as abutments, operate to twist the pin upon inserting it into the cloth, so that the pointed ends a will enter the material successively. c is a spring-acting joint in the middle of the pin, produced by bending the piece of wire, as shown in the drawings. The parts a b c are all made in one piece. It is an essential feature of my invention that the pointed ends of the pin are bent upward, which is of great importance, inasmuch as on inserting the pin its two legs are compressed and the points turned downward, and in this position with the ordinary pins it is diflicult to avoid the possibility of scratching or pricking the skin, or the device as heretofore constructed got caught in the cloth and could not be removed, especially when it was caught by the lining. These inconveniences are avoided by bending the ends upward. It is also a point of importance that the parts 19, forming the abutments, are not arranged at right angles to the legs, but they are curved outward. By this construction the user can take a better hold Serial No. 69,269. (No model.)

of the pin, and the cloth itself is made to rest against these abutments as it gets packed at these parts without, however, being able to glide past the abutments.

The operation of the device will be apparent from an inspection of Fig. 3 of the drawings. For inserting the pin in the manner shown in the drawings the user catches hold of it at the abutments b, and after the pin has been pressed together one of the pointed ends a is between them. Any side movement or accidental dropping out of the pointed ends is thereby also excluded.

I am aware that safety-pins consisting of a coiled piece of wire with oppositely-extending pointed legs are old, and I do not claim such combination broadly. My invention is, however, distinguished from the old constructions by being so arranged that the fabric is kept taut and accidental slipping out of the pin is prevented without the use of special springs for stretching the legs of the pin.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a fastening-pin, a spring-acting coil, integral with two oppositely-extending straight legs, outwardly-inclined stops on said legs, the pointed ends of which are turned outwardly and upwardly on the same side of the pin with the coil and the said stops, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD REIBETANZ. 

